Government

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Government
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Government
Derived from a Greek word meaning to steer. To
govern is to steer a course for society.
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Ancient Scholars of Government
Aristotle
Plato
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Rulers
Critics
Spectators
Ruled
Participants
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Two Types of Democratic Government

• Parliamentary form of government

Presidential form of government
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Responsibility
Legislative Assembly
Executive
Legislature
Authority
Parliamentary Government System
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• Cooperation

• Collective responsibility

Legislature
Executive

• Vote of confidence

• Party discipline

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Dual Executive
Head of Gov't
Head of State
Symbolic figurehead

• Premier
• Prime Minister
• Chairman of
• Council of Ministers

• Heredity
• Election

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Presidential Government Characteristics
Checks and Balances
Montesquieus idea of individual freedom
Separated Powers
Legislature Executive Judiciary
Make laws
Enforce laws
Settle disputes administer justice
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Presidential Government Characteristics
Decentralized party system
President Cabinet
Centrality of the Chief Executive
Checks and Balances
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James Q. Wilson
The Bureaucrat, 1990
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Reinventing Government
- good organization
- streamlined processes
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Problems of Public Management
- procedures dominate production
- accountability requirements
- equity dominates efficiency
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A.W. Jackson
Canadian Public Administration, September 1963
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- administrative efficiency
- streamlined processes
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3 Nation-States
Developed
Thirty wealthy and economically advanced liberal
democracies
Developing
Thirty postcommunist and communist party
states-semi-wealthy and very industrialized
Lesser Developed
Mainly poor and less developed states
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Lesser Developed
Developed
Developing
Political
Economic
Reflect society as much as they shape it
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Lesser Developed
Developed
Developing
unstable
modern
revolutionary communism
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Decision making
Centralization of power
Unitary Government
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Unitary Government
Regulations
Centralization of power
Uniformity
administrative practices
Promotes greater sense of National Unity
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Confederation
Member states

• Lack means of law making, taxation,
• and enforcement

• Established when there is a promise
• of a better operation of certain functions

• A supranational government is set up
• to facilitate this